Are we going there to stay?
June 7, 1911, postcard from Lisi to Josef. The two love-birds in a heart of roses, the clasped hands, and the forget-me-not blue flowers speak of love without saying a word. Lisi has made up her mind! One [...]
I will come
The blue flowers are “forget-me-nots” Josef’s long, heartfelt letter of May 25th, 1911, (click: If you love me…) could not yet have reached Lisi in Transylvania when she picked out this sweet postcard and wrote to him on May 30th. [...]
If you love me…
If you’ve ever been young and in love, this post will take you back to those heady days. I’ve been chronicling the letters I’ve found between my grandfather, Josef Gärtz, at aged twenty-one, (photo left), after he left for America on Christmas [...]
Be My Valentine, 1911
This little Valentine has no date and no signature. So I had put it aside, only to rediscover it just last week! I was able to read the strange writing better after a year of practice, and when I translated [...]
Love Finds a Way
Section of Eva Beer’s letter included with Josef’s. On February 11, 1911, the mail arrived in Hermannstadt, Hungary, where my grandmother, Lisi Ebner, worked for Mrs. Jickeli. I can imagine Lisi’s heart quickening when she saw a letter [...]